Verification Consultant

Role: Software Verification Consultant

Thanks for checking out our job opening; we are excited that you are interested in learning more about NCC Group.

We are on a mission to make society a safer and more secure place. Our people are the ones who make that possible; a global community of talented individuals working together towards a safer future.

We aim to create an environment where everyone can reach their full potential. We work together, we are brilliantly creative, we embrace difference, and we want you to join in our mission, as a permeant Verification Consultant.

The Software Resilience Division:
The Software Resilience division is a leading global provider of software resilience and business continuity solutions with over 18,000 customers worldwide and offices all over the world. We recently completed the exciting acquisition of Iron Mountain’s Intellectual Property Management (IPM) business. Together, the two businesses offer a rich, complementary set of services to customers globally, including industry leading software verification solutions and, excitingly, a cloud resilience proposition: Escrow-as-a-Service (EaaS).

As a combined business, IPM and our Software Resilience division are now the market leader in software resilience services globally. Together we remain committed to investing in helping customers improve resilience as the technology landscape continues to evolve and are focused on delivering maximum value to customers, and creating a workplace where sales, technical and operations teams can be themselves and do their best work.

In March 2019 we Launched our EaaS cloud offering. This is a marketing leading cloud escrow solution, where we have since seen triple digit % growth over the past two years. This solution is underpinned by deeply embedded cloud technologies and include a mixture of legal and technical consultancy services that are sold to customers worldwide.

The opportunity

Based in the UK, the role of a Verification Consultant is diverse and challenging with the primary responsibility being to carry out our Verification services in conjunction with an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). These Verification services provide assurance to our customers that the source code we store for their critical software, and crucially the necessary information required to rebuild it, is deposited successfully.

The challenge

As a Verification Consultant you will:

- Work with ISVs, both remotely and on-site, to perform our Verification services on behalf of our Clients.
- Perform audits of the rebuild process required to recreate the software or system being placed into escrow.
- Ensure the safe and secure handling of escrow deposits in line with departmental policies and procedures.
- Ensure the software/system under verification is audited in line with the requirements of the specific service-line being performed.
- Where obstacles are encountered during the verification process, liaise with the ISV, Licensee and NCC Group colleagues (where applicable) to address these to the point of successful conclusion.
- Liaise with the Verification Delivery and Scheduling Management Team with regards to all aspects of the planning, execution and documentation relating to Verification exercises.
- Support the Account Management Team to help to develop the relationship with both Clients and ISVs.
- Produce Verification Test Reports, which document the steps taken in a given Verification exercise, in line with the standards in place within the Escrow division.

Essential skills
- Experience of modern software development methodologies, languages and associated tools.
- Understanding of the full Software Development Life Cycle
- Knowledge and experience of working with common, modern operating systems.
- An understanding of virtualisation/containers.
- An in depth understanding and awareness of cloud providers such as, Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
- The ability to read and understand source code
- Ability to write/produce technical reports
- Any experience of providing pre-sales technical support to assist in the sales cycle.
- Able to present information confidently to both technical and non-technical audiences of all levels of seniority

About NCC Group

The NCC Group family has over 1,800 members located all around the world, providing a trusted advisory service to 15,000 customers. Born in the UK, we have now have offices in North America, Canada, Europe, Asia
- Pacific and United Arab Emirates.

We are passionate about helping our customers to protect their brand, value and reputation against the ever-evolving threat landscape. We fuel that passion with investment in our people and our business.

Our values and code of ethics are at the heart of how we operate - we work together, we are brilliantly creative and we embrace difference. We treat everyone and everything with equal respect.

We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel psychologically, emotionally an